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Excellent!Taylor Larimore wrote:MarketWatch has a comparison of eight "Lazy Portfolios." The Three-Fund Portfolio (Second Grader) had the top return during the past 1-year and 10-years. It also did well in the 5-year and 15-year periods.Is there an easy way to see returns for comparable lazy portfolios of Vanguard funds? I am interested to see how they compare to portfolios that have the same philosophy (I think) but are more complex
Past performance does not forecast future performance.
Total Returns For Eight Lazy Portfolios
Serious questions: For those of you who moved from a different investing strategy to the Three Fund Portfolio, what did you do with your prior investments (namely individual stocks and actively managed funds)? Did you allocate all new money and investments into the Three Fund Portfolio? Did you sell everything (including in taxable accounts), pay the cap gains and move it into the appropriate AA for the Three Fund Portfolio? Did you do this over time to spread out the tax implications (say 2 - 3 years)?
We are trying to get simplified with a Three Fund Portfolio by moving from one of way too much complexity. All of our long term buy and hold investments in taxable accounts would take quite a tax hit if sold and moved. We've already managed to start making keen adjustments in tax deferred and retirement accounts (Ages 55 & 59 and contributing about 14.5% into pensions each year). So we were curious how some of the rest of you handled the switch in portfolio strategy.

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Tax 'Goof' Update: Geithner Was 'Reimbursed' for Taxes He Didn't Pay; AP Story Buries, Then Deletes
Yesterday, details discovered about Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner's tax situation moved it to well past the level of an "honest mistake."
You wouldn't know it from the Associated Press's Julie Hirschfeld Davis, who, as I noted yesterday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), continues to run interference for him. A story from Thursday afternoon that has since been dynamically updated had a final paragraph alluding to the fact that Geithner had signed annual statements acknowleding his obligation to pay his own payroll taxes (Update: That Thursday afternoon story is still at Breitbart). That paragraph is not present in the story as updated at 3:13 a.m. this morning (saved here for future reference). Even that paragraph, when it was present, didn't note that Geithner had applied and received reimbursement for payroll taxes he didn't pay.
First, here are key paragraphs from Davis's cheerleading roundup, including disconcerting statements of support for Geithner from many who should know better:
Revelations that Timothy Geithner failed to pay some of his taxes have derailed Democrats' efforts to install him quickly as President-elect Barack Obama's treasury secretary, but senators in both parties say his tax problems won't torpedo his chances for confirmation.
Obama said Wednesday that the disclosures that Geithner had failed to pay $34,000 in taxes between 2001 and 2004 were embarrassing, but added that Geithner's "innocent mistake" shouldn't keep him from taking the helm of the new administration's urgent efforts to revive the economy. Several Republicans agreed that Geithner would get Senate approval and said their party had little appetite for a partisan fight at a precarious time for the economy.
GOP opponents of Geithner should "think this through," said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah., a member of the Senate Finance Committee that's considering his nomination. "They're not going to get anybody better than him from this administration for treasury secretary."
….. (Barack) Obama had hoped for approval by Tuesday, but given the GOP objections, senators scheduled Geithner's confirmation hearing for next Wednesday, with Senate debate and a vote sometime after that.
"Is this an embarrassment for him? Yes. He said so himself. But it was an innocent mistake," Obama said. "My expectation is that Tim Geithner will be confirmed."
….. Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee are backing Geithner, who's engaged in an intense damage control effort, including numerous phone calls to senators, to persuade them that his tax problems were the result of innocent errors, not deliberate attempts to avoid paying the Internal Revenue Service.
"It's an honest mistake," said Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who chairs the committee, adding that Geithner's confirmation was "a given."
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was among those coming to Geithner's defense.
"These are huge times. Now is not the time to think in small political terms," Graham said. "I don't see any desire by the Republican Party to play gotcha on this. … I think he's the right guy."
Here's what Davis left out, and what those who don't want to be seen as meanies are ignoring, courtesy of this two-paragraph capsule from the Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Wiseman (bolds are mine):
The Obama team said Mr. Geithner's taxes have been paid in full, and that he didn't intend to avoid payment, but made a mistake common for employees of international institutions. That characterization was contested by Senate Finance Republicans, who produced IMF documents showing that employees are repeatedly told they are responsible for paying their payroll taxes.
As to why Mr. Geithner didn't pay all his back taxes after the 2006 audit, an Obama aide said the nominee was advised by his accountant he had no further liability. Senate Finance aides said they were concerned either Mr. Geithner or his accountant used the IRS's statute of limitations to avoid further back-tax payments at the time of the audit.
As I noted yesterday, the normal three-year statute of limitations rule "does not apply in the case of a false or fraudulent return with intent to evade any tax." Given the frequent notifications Geithner received, and other evidence that will follow, I believe it's fair to contest Geithner's professed lack of intent to evade taxes.
Michelle Malkin, as usual, has much more, including this statement from an e-mailer (bolds are mine):
[H]aving worked at the World Bank/IMF I can tell you that as an American working there, they REIMBURSE you for the self-employment taxes! The idea is that American's get paid "on par" with all the foreigners i.e. NO taxes are withheld. The compromise is that American's (sic) pay the "self-employment" tax but you get a CHECK from the Bank/IMF to pay them with.
Byron York at National Review has also been all over the reimbursement issue, and adds several important "he had to know what was going on" elements (bolds are mine):
….. IMF employees were expected to pay their taxes out of their own money. But the IMF then gave them an extra allowance, known as a "gross-up," to cover those tax payments. This was done in the Annual Tax Allowance Request, in which the employee filled out some basic information — marital status, dependent children, etc. — and the IMF then estimated the amount of taxes the employee would owe and gave the employee a corresponding allowance.
At the end of the tax allowance form were the words, "I hereby certify that all the information contained herein is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and that I will pay the taxes for which I have received tax allowance payments from the Fund." Geithner signed the form. He accepted the allowance payment. He didn't pay the tax. For several years in a row.
According to an analysis released by the Senate Finance Committee, Geithner "wrote contemporaneous checks to the IRS and the State of Maryland for estimated [income] tax payments" that jibed exactly with his IMF statements. But he didn't write checks for the self-employment tax allowance. Then, according to the committee analysis, "he filled out, signed and submitted an annual tax allowance request worksheet with the IMF that states, 'I wish to apply for tax allowance of U.S. Federal and State income taxes and the difference between the "self-employed" and "employed" obligation of the U.S. Social Security tax which I will pay on my Fund income."
Absolutely none of this is in Julie Hirschfeld Davis's AP story.
A New York Times editorial today inadvertently makes the concise argument why the Geithner nomination should be withdrawn:
Mr. Geithner must be questioned forcefully about these matters at the hearing next week, and his explanations must be credible. Even in the best of economic times, it would be hard to accept a Treasury secretary — who, after all, is in charge of the Internal Revenue Service — with a cavalier attitude toward paying his taxes. Today, in a time of economic peril, the nation cannot afford a Treasury secretary with a tainted ability to command respect and instill confidence.
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Historic Mountain Biking in Goodsprings
Epic backcountry gravel grinding adventures don't have to start with a four-hour drive to get to some remote trailhead. Some of them start right in your backyard. For me, that is almost literally true. I work as a park ranger at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, which is tucked right under the red sandstone escarpment of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, and this adventure actually began right at work.
You might have been to Red Rock—it gets nearly a million and a half visitors every year. You may not have made it to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park yet. We're more of a "locals' park" and we get about 150,000 visitors per year. Spring Mountain Ranch is a historic ranch – one of the oldest in the state, actually—that history is the origin of this bike ride.
I love history. I should—I was formerly the park historian at Spring Mountain Ranch. But I'm still pretty new in Vegas, and I'm still learning how the little oasis of our historic ranch fits into the bigger picture of Las Vegas' history as a community. I also love cycling, and above all things I love mashing together my disparate hobbies. Hence my most recent adventure: a 13-mile, 4wd road thrash from my state park to Goodsprings, Nevada.
The history of Spring Mountain Ranch and Goodsprings are closely entwined. The ranch is one of three that comprised the original settlement in the Las Vegas valley in the 1870's. All three made their living in this remote valley by supplying food or building materials for the gold and silver mines that Swiss-cheese the mountains all around us. The silver mine on Mt Potosi, the gold mines at Eldorado Canyon and Ivanpah, and the lead and zinc operation near Goodsprings all were fed by beef from our herd, fruit from our orchard, and corn from our garden. That food was transported on rough freight-wagon roads, most of which today are forgotten unmarked wide spots between Joshua trees and creosote bushes. Case in point: the route I was going to take on this ride.
The trip from Spring Mountain Ranch to Goodsprings on modern roads is a 42-mile drive that drags you clear over to I-15 to get just 20 miles south as the crow flies. The old wagon track from the ranch to Goodsprings still exists, and is much closer to the 20-mile crow flight-path. The old trail isn't for everyone though. Really, it's just for those of us with high clearance jeeps, or strong legs, a good mountain bike, and a sense of adventure. I had the legs. I love adventure. The bike was questionable.
When a friend rolls into town and needs to borrow a bike, I'm not the kind of guy who says "no". I usually don't have to, because I'm six-foot-two, and most of my bikes are too big for potential borrowers. But my mountain bike is a little on the small side for me, and I have managed to squeeze myself onto it by adding an adjustable handlebar stem and an extra-long seat post. That makes it possible to fit a smaller person onto the bike by lowering one thing and raising another. A friend needed a bike and I obliged her, which was great because she's the reason this ride happened at all. When she suggested that we do a trail ride together, I knew exactly where I wanted to go – I'd been thinking about this ride for months, but just hadn't gotten around to doing it. Unfortunately, the night before the event she had to cancel. My adventure fires were all stoked up, though, and I knew I had to go anyway.
I was excited knowing I would get to see the same landscape—mostly unchanged—the same way the Wilson family had seen it on their routine supply runs to Goodsprings. It made me feel like stepping back in time, and was a chance to connect with their experience first-hand. But, with my mountain bike lent out, what was I going to ride? I had a bike that for a while I'd thought MIGHT be up to the punishment of off-road riding, but until now I'd been too timid to try it out. Now was the time!
A few years ago I bought a touring bike. Touring bikes are usually road-style bikes with "drop" handlebars that curve like ram's horns. Most road-style bikes are racing bikes, and every year they get more gracile and weigh less. Aircraft-grade aluminum and feather-light carbon fiber frames can get the weight of these bikes well under twenty pounds, which is astonishing when you consider that they're built to handle 190-pound humans pounding away on hard asphalt with them. Well, that's racing roadbikes. Touring bikes are another matter altogether. They're built for strength and stability while carrying not only their rider, but all the gear that rider might need if they were, say, riding from San Francisco to New York. We're not talking aluminum and carbon fiber frames, we're talking about steel now.
Touring bikes are also built to accommodate accessories like cargo racks, fenders for keeping road puddles from spraying all over the rider, brakes that can stop a LOT of mass, and big tires to cushion the rider over long distances. There were three questions in my mind when I wondered if my touring bike could serve double duty as an off-road bomber.
1) Could the bike fit the balloon tires required for 4wd road conditions?
2) Could the brakes handle the twitchy adjustments to speed that reacting to uneven terrain would require?
3) Would I destroy my bike's steel frame by subjecting it to mountain bike stresses? Most mountain bikes today employ hydraulic suspension front-forks to take pressure off of frames (and to keep handlebars from rattling out of their rider's hands, but I hadn't even THOUGHT of that one yet.)
I did some internet sleuthing to see what kind of tire clearances my particular model had, and using the magic of 2-day shipping, I had a pair of 47 mm wide tires delivered from an online retailer well before our planned ride. They fit on the bike just fine, and the night before the adventure I could barely sleep I was so excited.
This is Las Vegas, and this is August, so I did myself a favor and set my alarm clock for 5:30 a.m. to ride ahead of the day's blistering heat. That would give me a half hour to putter around the house and wake up, and a half hour drive to the trailhead for a 6:30 a.m. start. I would have liked to start at Spring Mountain Ranch so I could have gotten the whole experience of the Wilson supply run from beginning to end, but there is no trail connecting the park to the Goodsprings road. Instead, I started at the Cottonwood Canyon trailhead parking lot on State Highway 160. There isn't much there, just a gravel lot with a vault toilet and an information kiosk without any information displayed in it, but you can't miss it: it's the only parking lot on the south side of the highway as you drive toward Pahrump.
I arrived, unloaded my bike, applied sunscreen, and slung my three-liter hydration pack on my back (generously loaded with snacks and electrolyte drink powder). I took a final, loving "before" picture of my reborn touring bike, just in case I thrashed it into scrap on this ride, and I was off!
The 4wd track starts like off-road candy: a smooth quarter mile long descent that lets you immediately thrill to that feeling of limitless freedom only bicycles confer. And then you go up. Way up. It's not a surprise – you could see from the parking lot that the beginning of the ride was going to be a long climb over an outlying spur of the Spring Mountains, but the reality was brutal. The smooth road turns jagged, with brick-sized stones littering the two-track. This rock pile of a road also sank into soupy fine gravel at regular intervals, and I was thankful for the as-big-as-I-could-get tires I'd added to my bike. The 32mm tires I'd taken off the bike would never have managed. I would either have immediately bogged down in the sand, or destroyed a wheel rim on the large stones. As it was, I occasionally heard a cringe-inducing "bang!" as a stone pushed a tire all the way in to contact a rim. The second time this happened, I dismounted and increased my tire pressure with my hand pump. With slower riding, judicious route choice around and over the smoothest stones, I managed not to end my adventure in the first mile with a destroyed wheel.
The final approach to the pass was steep enough that I had to dismount and push my bike up. This only lasted about one hundred-fifty yards, and you can imagine my joy when I crested the pass to find that all the energy I'd just invested in climbing was about to be rewarded by 11 miles of downhill rollercoaster dirt-bombing. You can see clear to Goodsprings from up there – the road dives under washes, winds around hills and smashes through Joshua tree forests, all while tumbling relentlessly down to the town that is its goal. The view is magnificent. I could imagine how the Wilsons looked forward to this trip. I couldn't wait to get into it myself – so I pushed off the peak of the hill, and screamed into the landscape.
It would have been nice to have had front suspension. Like, really nice. The road is washboarded, and there were times when I had to loosen my grip on my brakehoods to a light touch to keep from being shaken completely off the handlebars. Braking was a tenuous proposition, as the road surface turned from hard-packed clay to treacherous fine gravel without warning. Be careful. If you have more discipline (and sense) than I do, go slowly. I managed not to plant myself in the cacti, but in retrospect it feels like I owe that to luck as much as skill.
Wider tires would have been nice. Like, really nice. My bike with the biggest tires I could get on it was adequate for this ride, but it would have been more fun, and certainly safer to have had 2.1 inch knobby tires with lots of floatation for this ride. That would have mitigated the hardpack-to-gravel treacherousness of the road, and smoothed out some of the bone-rattling rills that grade the straight stretches. Finally, be aware that the road slants and banks, but not always on curves where a banked track would be convenient. Watch your wheels and be aware of the consistency of the surface beneath them so you don't slide out on your side.
My equipment and skills were both challenged by this ride, though at a more moderate speed it could have been a relaxing bike stroll. And there were quietly sublime moments too. If you do this ride and you are a speed junky, I hope that you'll still stop occasionally. Take your eyes off the ground flying beneath you. Smell the creosote bush's burned-brass perfume. Against all odds this day was overcast, and the low-hanging clouds sprayed a rare mist of rain over me. Not enough to make anything actually wet. Just enough to put a fresh pattern of raindrop craters in the dust on the road, and to coax the creosote to open its stomata to let the smell of rain in the Mojave drift in clouds across my path.
Rabbits, both lanky black-eared hares and cotton-tailed bunnies, shot into motion in front of me. They crouched, noses twitching and black eyes panicking at your passing. They aren't used to seeing people at all on this road, not since wagons rattled down it with provisions for hungry miners.
At one point the road plunged fifteen feet down into a wash and shot right out again, and when I popped back up onto the world I spooked a herd of five ghost-white mustangs. They scattered to both sides of the road, and when I stopped to dig my camera out of my pack they paused, and I swear I could see in their eyes that they were trying to assess the risk of crossing the road again to regroup – safety in numbers. I shot some pictures of two mares and colt as they braved the passage in front of me, and I was about to pedal on when I heard a threatening whickering sound from the left. A beautiful dun mare was moving confidently toward her group, her eyes locked on me in defiance. She never stopped side-eyeing me, and after crossing the road she broke into a lope and all the rest followed her, disappearing with seemingly impossible abruptness into the Joshua trees.
A fragment of rainbow appeared over the southern-most peak of the Spring Mountain range on my right. Goodsprings loomed before me. The sun broke through the clouds to shine on a lime white mountain in California to the south. About a half mile north of Goodsprings the 4wd road intersects a paved mining road. Watch yourself here – two semis hauling double trailers crowded me to the edge of this road in the brief time it took to get into Goodsprings. They weren't aggressive or rude – they just weren't prepared to see a cyclist. Be prepared to see them first – you're on their turf.
I rolled into town, positively loving the feeling of smooth asphalt under my tires. It's not a big enough town to get lost in. I tooled around, exploring, and hoping I'd find the saloon on my own. I'd read an adventure blog on the Travel Nevada website about the saloon in Goodsprings, and I was eager to see just how early they opened, and what they had to offer. I feel that a saloon isn't a saloon unless it opens for a morning rush. If it ain't open for breakfast then it's a bar, and if it ain't open for lunch it's a tavern. I came to see a saloon, and I wasn't disappointed.
Well, I was initially disappointed. I rolled up to the Pioneer Saloon at 8:35 a.m. The sign posted said they didn't open until 9:00. Fair enough. That left me a little time to bike-stroll around the streets of Goodsprings.
It's an odd little mishmash of a community. There are modest ranch homes, RV's in semi-permanent moorings, trailers, and multimillion-dollar dream homes intermingled with one another along streets that are a perfect Cartesian grid . . . until they snake and wind around features of the landscape. I was struck by the disparate homes and yard decorations that stood side by side throughout town. Mobile homes beside McMansions. Homemade metal art gardens beside manicured landscaping that any HOA would be proud of. Goodsprings reminded me of one of the things I love the most about Nevada: we've learned how to respect one another's autonomy while still living as a community.
The mining history of Goodsprings is on display everywhere. The center of town has a small park with one hundred year-old mining equipment and a pair of miner's dwellings with corrugated tin roofs, all of it taking on the red corroded patina that is the very definition of Nevada desert kitsch. Growing beside one of the cabins I found a mesquite tree bearing one of the Mojave Desert's seasonal treats – mesquite beans and deep cool pool of shade. I parked my bike, plucked a few beans and sat down in the shade to enjoy them. The honey mesquite tree's fruits are long green beans that look like a green bean whose peas have grown too big for the pod and stretched it out to the point of bursting. When they're ripe, you can chew on them (but not eat them) and you'll be rewarded with nature's own sweet-but-sour candy. They taste a little like sour apple, but with a Sourpatch Kids bite. I always imagine how American Indian kids must have longed for late August to roll round – a magical time of year when candy literally grows on trees.
Nine o'clock had rolled around while musing in the shade, and I roused myself to head over to the Pioneer Saloon. Tom the bartender was just finishing his morning preparations when I cruised in and propped myself up against the bar. I'd been moving for four hours at this point and had done what felt like a bloody-Mary's worth of work, so despite the early hour I decided to celebrate a little. Besides, I sorely needed some electrolytes, and tomato juice has electrolytes, right?
Tom didn't bat an eyelash at my order, and mixed me up a more-than-decent drink: spicy, savory, and sweating cold. He relaxed against the bar back and we settled into conversation. With very little prompting he brought me up to speed about the history of the bar (which is fascinating, and worth learning about if you make it to Goodsprings) and explained how he'd made it to this strange little corner of Nevada from the Pacific Northwest. He asked what I did to earn my bread and when I replied "park ranger" his eyes lit up.
"Now that's just about the only other job I can imagine myself doing" he said. I smiled. As it turns out, I used to tend bar, too, and it is just about one of the only jobs I can imagine myself doing if I hadn't landed my dream job at Spring Mountain Ranch. I told him I actually used to work at a historic bar in my hometown in Missouri, and that I had a spiel about it very much like the one he'd just given me about the Pioneer Saloon. We agreed that there may be some kind of vocational affinity between barkeeps and park rangers: you've got to know how to tell a good story, how to listen when people want to talk, and be good at making people happy while protecting your workplace.
I was getting hungry, and the menu at the Pioneer had some items that were really calling my name, but I knew better than to load myself down with an omelet or burger before finishing the ride. It was past 10:00 now, and I needed to get moving if I was going to avoid the full heat of the day. The clouds had burned away, and sun was beginning to beat down. Instead of a brunch, I availed myself of a pickled egg from the bar, drank a tall glass of water, and shook hands with Tom.
I expected the ride back to my car to take the better part of four hours, considering how fast it felt like I'd been going on the 11-mile downhill since cresting the pass early in the ride. I settled into a slow pace in a low gear, following my own two tire tracks as they slalomed back and forth over the road. They were actually pretty useful, acting as guides to keep me on the smoothest and hardest patches of road. It was nice to just follow my tracks and let my mind wander rather than constantly choose the best route.
The wildlife had all fled the heat, and besides some surveyors staking out what looked like a gas pipeline right of way, I had the valley all to myself. I stopped occasionally to catch my breath, but largely just fell into the rhythm of my pedals and let the miles melt away. I crested the pass long before I felt like I should have, and saw the trailhead in the near distance. After riding the whole 13 miles twice, I can say with confidence that the first two / last two miles are the most technically challenging. I rattled my way down from the pass, giving my brakes a hard workout and wishing again that I had front-suspension on my bike. And then I was back at my car: total return trip time two and a half hours. I was shocked. Surely, it hadn't taken me just a half hour longer on the return trip than on the way in?! But it had.
I was finished with the ride by 12:30 p.m. It was a perfect half-day adventure. Enough to get my blood pumping, a little adrenaline flowing, and relaxing enough that I'd left my workweek stress in the dust of a not-so-remote Nevada backcountry road. #TravelNevada
Travel Nevada PRO TIPS
If you'd like to go on this adventure yourself, here are a few tips about preparation and equipment:
- A sturdy steel framed bike without suspension is up to the task of this ride if you're willing to take it slow, or if you're an experienced rider. Cyclocross bikes should be fine so long as you have 42mm or larger tires mounted. I'd suggest you go even bigger than 42 mm if you can. Be prepared for a challenging technical ride on this kind of bike.
- Take water in a hydration pack, not in bottles in your bottle-cages. Your bottles will not stay in the cages over this terrain It should go without saying that you should have lots of water with you, too – at least three liters.
- Be prepared to change a flat. Tire levers, spare tubes, and a frame pump are must-haves for this ride.
- Bring your wallet, and relax a little once you hit Goodsprings. Getting there really is only half the fun!
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Truly enchanting
Who's In It: Thanapat Saisaymar, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas
The Basics: Boonmee is dying, and the life he is soon to leave behind is just one of several he has had. As his life draws to a close, his house is filled with the now-visible ghost of his dead wife, his son that disappeared and turned into a Monkey Ghost, and even some real people too. He fades in and out of his past lives, just as the title indicates, and they are a doozy. Jimmy Page ain't got nothing' on Boonmee.
What's The Deal: This movie is stunning. It took me awhile to get used to director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's long takes and quiet scenes, but after the first ten minutes, I fell under his spell. This is the kind of film for the attention span of days long gone by, where the simple beauty of the story was allowed to unfold and breathe. It's like the Thai version of Barry Lindon, with an ethereal beauty and reverence for nature. This also makes it not for everyone--expect long takes of drives down rural roads, oxen in the forest, and sitting next to bodies of water. To me, this movie was like two hours of meditation--a blissful escape from a hectic world.
Not To Say That It's Boring: The movie is anything but. The only difference is, you have to pay attention to see why it's totally crazy, because the viewer isn't spoon fed with computer-generated sparkles or monsters. In fact, it's even harder to distinguish what is insane and what isn't, because the characters regard Monkey Ghosts with the same aplomb reserved for chopping down a tree or fixing a stir-fry.
I Will See it Three More Times: Because I definitely didn't catch everything on the first try. There's a lot going on here, and even though it satisfies on a more obvious fantasy level, there's certainly a deeper meaning to it. After winning the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 2010, many discussions have arisen regarding the film's references to communism, memories, karma, and the predicament of life itself. Feel free to seek those out while I just discuss the fact that Boonmee used to be a princess who gives both jewels and her womanhood to a catfish right in the middle of a lake. WIth a waterfall, even! Holy smokes. And somehow, it didn't feel that sensational. In the world of the film, Boonmee's forest is teeming with enchantment, and it makes perfect sense that his many lives embody that same spirit.
The Bottom Line: See this film if you are longing to see something truly outside the box that you can't get in any local multiplex. Regardless of how you feel about it, you will have a great discussion afterwards, which makes it worth the price of admission.
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Myanmar's Post-Election Landscape
Amnesty International
7 March 2011
(…) The November 2010 elections in Myanmar were not free and fair and the country has not escaped authoritarian rule. Predictably, in such a tightly controlled poll, the regime's own Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won a landslide victory leaving the military elite still in control. Together with the quarter of legislative seats reserved for soldiers, this means there will be little political space for opposition members in parliament. The new government that has been formed, and which will assume power in the coming weeks, also reflects the continued dominance of the old order with the president and one of the two vice presidents drawn from its ranks and a number of cabinet ministers recycled.
Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to conclude that nothing has changed. The top two leaders of the former military regime have stepped aside, and a new generation has taken over. A new constitution has come into force, which fundamentally reshapes the political landscape, albeit in a way that ensures the continued influence of the military. A number of technocrats have been brought into the cabinet, and at the local level ethnic groups now have at least some say in the governance of their affairs.
These changes are unlikely to translate into dramatic reforms in the short term, but they provide a new governance context, improving the prospects for incremental reform. (…)
(…) Improved policies must start with the recognition that sanctions have had counterproductive effects and caused ordinary people to suffer, and have impeded the country's development. To redress this, restrictions on development assistance should be immediately lifted and levels of aid increased.
Restrictions on technical assistance from international financial institutions should also be removed. These bodies should be encouraged to work on pressing concerns such as poverty alleviation, social and economic policy reform, education, and capacity building. Restrictions that hold back the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other UN agencies should be lifted. Broad-based economic sanctions such as those imposed by the U.S. on imports and the EU's denial of trade privileges should also go.
A new approach urgently needs to be adopted, one that provides much greater support for Myanmar's people and for the socio-economic reforms that are essential for improving their lives, while convincing the leadership that a renormalisation of relations with the West is possible if they embark on a process of significant political reform. (…)
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Lenovo Showcases Flex Laptops and AIO Desktop
Lenovo Showcases Flex Laptops and AIO Desktop
Flex 14 and Flex 15
More than a thin and light laptop, the dual-mode Flex 14.1-inch and 15.6-inch laptops creatively flip 300° for stand mode, a new way to interact with a PC and positions the device closer to the user for more natural, comfortable touch experience. Users can open Lenovo's custom YouCam program, say "1,2,3 cheese" to snap a webcam photo and then send it to a friend using Flex's voice commands1. Or they can enjoy cinematic quality sound to the latest NetFlix movie with Flex's Dolby Advanced Audio v2 without a keyboard in the way or even watch high definition content on another screen via Flex's HDMI-out connection.
Beyond Flex's extra value with its dual mode, flip functionality, its fashionable soft-touch black cover trimmed with silver or Clementine Orange also attracts attention. Equally stunning, the interior contains a clean keyboard design with optional backlighting. Images are vividly rich thanks to Flex's HD 1366X768 or optional Full HD 1920X1080 displays. With 10-point multitouch, Flex makes using Windows 8 and collaboration easy. With up to nine hours, Flex 14 and 15 are extremely mobile and are primed for productivity with up to Intel 4th generation Core ULT i7 processors, up to NVIDIA discrete GT 740M graphics, up to 1 TB of storage and optional SSD or NAND flash on Ultrabook models.
Flex 20
Framed in an attractive 20.5mm thin aluminum shell, the compact Flex 20 fits neatly into virtually any home or office yet surpasses expectations for an everyday AIO with its grand 19.5-inch frameless HD (1600X900) IPS 90° tilt display, 500 GB HD or SSHD storage and up to Intel Core i7 processors.
However, Flex 20 really surprises and delights with its special ability to convert from stand to table mode. When flat in table mode, the Aura interface, first pioneered on the Lenovo Horizon Table PC, opens for a multi-game, multi-player experience like no other. In this mode, users can challenge others to play games, including preloaded ones like Ubisoft's Raiding Company, those available for purchase from the Lenovo App Store powered by Intel App Up and newly created custom Lenovo games including Omnitapps
Media Puzzle Pack for making fun video puzzles and Omnitapps Educational Suite with a series of memory and learning games along with other Lenovo games like Fishing Joy, Air Hockey and Roulette.
The dual mode Flex 20 provides even more entertainment value with its special physical accessories (sold separately) - joysticks, strikers and e-dice – that allow up to four players to interact directly with the digital games, or players can use the 10-point multitouch screen. The Aura interface functions as a highly collaborative tool for multi-media content enhanced with its Dolby Home Theater v4 audio. Unlike most AIO's, Flex 20 has mobility in mind with built-in WiFi for easy moving around the home or office, and users can pick up and go for up to three hours without charging.
Lenovo Services offers a host of integrated solutions to meet the needs of business customers and consumers who purchase a Lenovo convertible device, including warranty extensions/upgrades, accidental damage protection, keep your drive, priority tech support and a set of factory and automated deployment services.
Pricing and Availability
These Flex products will be available starting late September. MSRP for the Flex 14 and Flex 15 is US$629.99 and US$899.99 for the Flex 20.
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Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande is famous for her fun, flirty style, and always manages to look cute and put together on the red carpet. With her recent hit song "The Way" featuring Mac Miller debuting at No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, Grande is sure to be making plenty more appearances in the future. Steal the singer's favorite glowing makeup look to compliment a style that's all your own:
1. Begin by following your normal routine of applying foundation or BB cream, then sweep bronzer across your face to get Grande's famous tan glow. Next, apply a bit of blush to the apples of your cheeks and sweep upward to give them definition.
2. Next up? Your eyes! Grab your favorite gold eyeshadow and apply it to your lids. Use a black pencil or cake eyeliner to line both your bottom and top lids. You can use a thicker line if you'll be wearing this makeup at night. Top it off with a few coats of mascara.
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Everyone, this is Lilli. Lilli has six — count them — six legs. You can actually see her two little extra limbs dangling just so from her left side. She wears them well, don't you think?
Lilli's condition is called polymelia, "poly" and "melia" being Greek for "many" and "limb," respectively. Polymelia occurs when one member in a set of conjoined twins degenerates in the mother's uterus almost entirely, leaving just an extra limb (or, in the case of Lilli, two limbs) attached to its fully-formed sibling.
The vet that delivered Lilli said she wouldn't survive birth. But I want you to take a good look at Lilli. Does she look like she cares about the opinions of veterinarians? Of course she doesn't. Because she's an adorable baby cow and all she wants to do is frolic and shoot off sassy, sidelong glances like this one.
You'd probably feel the same way if you got to grow up in the scenic mountains of Switzerland, and were looked after by a farmer who just couldn't bring himself to euthanize you because you were "so full of life."
Today, seven weeks after the vet said Lilly wouldn't make it past birth, she's looking happy and healthy. Come summer, says her owner, she'll be able to join the other cows when they head out to graze in the Alpine pastures. (And no, that's not a euphemism for the slaughterhouse... Lilli actually lives in the vicinity of picturesque Alpine pastures.) [The Telegraph]


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When it comes to getting pregnant, the size of your data does matter.
That's the premise behind Glow, an app for the iPhone and iPad that couples can use to figure out the best time to try to get pregnant.
The app predicts a woman's chances of conception on a particular day based on personal survey the user takes each day. Among those behind the free app is PayPal cofounder Max Levchin, who announced the app earlier this year saying he wanted to make a difference in the health industry with the use of data analytics.
According to the company, some of Glow's cofounders have had fertility challenges of their own or have seen friends struggle with conception. The company wanted to apply big data toward fertility as well as make it easier for couples to have access to fertility treatments.
"Our emerging ability to crunch and analyze vast quantities of data will be specifically used to help get you pregnant," the app's website said.
The app will also send women daily recommendations for increasing their chances. And men who download the app can also receive recommendations and alerts on how best to help in the effort.
"Tired? Stressed? Agitated? Tell our app and we'll make sure that your partner is aware of your needs," the developer says in the description for the app.
Additionally, users of the app can apply to join Glow First, which is a community fund for infertility treatment that Glow starts every month.
When a couple joins the program, they pay $50 a month for 10 months or until they get pregnant. The money is pooled together into a nonprofit fund that includes money from other couples that joined Glow First in the same month. At the end of the 10-month period, the fund is divided equally among the women who could not get pregnant. The money is sent directly to the fertility clinics of the women's choice and can be used for fertility treatments.
A new fund is created each month, and to kick-start the program, Levchin donated $1 million of his own money.
"Our hope is if we're successful, these groups will become bigger over time," a company spokeswoman told The Times in an email. "Every dollar contributed will be redistributed back to participants toward fertility treatments."
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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer may have to watch his backOctober 18, 2012: 5:00 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, and Abbott Laboratories, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Shares of Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) are trading near their all-time highs. Microsoft? Not so much. The stock is more than 50% below its peak price from late 1999.
That's why some investors are growing increasingly impatient with the company's strategy and Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's latest earnings came out after the closing bell Thursday. The company did not report blockbuster numbers. Sales were flat and earnings per share were down from a year ago -- although they did top estimates. But with Microsoft set to release its Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet next week, there are hopes that Microsoft's new products can help rejuvenate its top and bottom lines.
They better.
Related: Microsoft Surface priced at iPad-like $499
Shares of Microsoft have had a nice pop this year -- they're up about 14% so far in 2012 -- but they still lag the performance of Google, Apple and the Nasdaq. What's more, Microsoft stock trades at the relatively cheap valuation of just 10 times next year's earnings estimates. That's a multiple more befitting a stodgy industrial stock than a tech leader.
Some Microsoft shareholders think that Ballmer, who took over as CEO from Bill Gates in 2000, is to blame. He needs to prove -- quickly -- that the company isn't on the road to permanent also-ran status.
"There is a Ballmer discount reflected in the stock price. The company has put a lot of money into things over the past dozen years that have not paid off so well yet," said Marian Kessler, co-manager of the Becker Value Equity fund in Portland, Ore. Her fund has a position in Microsoft.
Kessler thinks that if Microsoft were to replace Ballmer, the stock would immediately pop.
That may be a little unfair. For all of Microsoft's notable miscues over the past few years, including a big bet on online advertising through the purchase of aQuantive and a search partnership with Yahoo (YHOO) that has yet to cause Google execs sleepless nights, it's not as if Ballmer is presiding over a tech train wreck.>
Microsoft is still in much better shape than its hardware partners Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Dell (DELL). The company's Xbox and Kinect gaming businesses have been nice success stories, too.
"I'm not sure it's a leadership issue. Microsoft is trying to go into new growth areas," said Sunil Reddy, a portfolio manager with Apex Capital Management, a Dayton, Ohio-based firm that owns the stock. "The issue is how technology is changing. The PC was the center of the universe ten years ago and now it's not."
Related: How Microsoft -- yes, Microsoft -- cracked online music
Shareholders should also applaud Ballmer for getting Microsoft past most of its legal quagmires. With many of its antitrust problems behind it, Microsoft has finally stopped hoarding cash and started returning some of that money to investors through stock buybacks and a dividend that now yields an impressive 2.7%.
Along those lines, Reddy said investors have to adjust their expectations for Microsoft's stock. It's not the go-go growth stock it once was, and it never will be again. It's now a mature, stable blue chip.
Let's also get one thing clear: Barring some sort of scandal or a colossal product failure, Ballmer is not going away anytime soon.
In 2008, Ballmer suggested in a speech that he could retire in about 10 years. That's still six years away.
At the age of 56, Ballmer is relatively young, and he has not given any recent hints that he wants to bump up his retirement date. Microsoft has not made its succession plan public. The company declined to comment for this story.
Some tech experts speculate that Ballmer will eventually hand the reins over to Steven Sinofsky, the president of the Windows division. But if Windows 8 is more like Windows Vista than Windows XP, it's hard to imagine Sinofsky would be given the keys to the Microsoft car .... which means Microsoft would have to turn elsewhere if it decided Ballmer had to go.
Related: Ballmer: Microsoft will make more gadgets like Surface
On the flip side, if Windows 8 is a monstrous hit that does turnaround Microsoft, then Ballmer will clearly get a lot of the credit.
That's exactly what shareholders want to see.
"Microsoft has just been stuck in the mud. We hope that Windows 8 will provide a spark," said Gary Bradshaw, a portfolio manager with Hodges Capital Management in Dallas who owns the stock.
The early reviews for Windows 8 have been fairly favorable. If that translates to strong sales and a boost to Microsoft's earnings growth rate, you'll hear significantly fewer calls by shareholders for Ballmer's ouster. But make no mistake: Windows 8 has to be big. Investors may not give Ballmer enough time to convince them how awesome Windows 9 will be.
"I'm not sure I'm ready to say I want someone other than Ballmer just yet, " said Bradshaw. "But I do want the stock to move. We've given it lots of time and Ballmer has had plenty of chances."


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
Retrospect of Western Travel in Three Vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1876,
After her trip to American in 1834-36, Martineau wrote a perceptive analysis of social and economic conditions in the U.S.
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This method is not callable by your application code. To save a package as .xml, use the SaveToXml(String, Package, IDTSEvents) method.
virtual void SaveToXML(System::Xml::XmlDocument ^ % doc, System::Xml::XmlNode ^ node, Microsoft::SqlServer::Dts::Runtime::IDTSEvents ^ events);
public void SaveToXML (ref System.Xml.XmlDocument doc, System.Xml.XmlNode node, Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.IDTSEvents events);
abstract member SaveToXML : XmlDocument * System.Xml.XmlNode * Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.IDTSEvents -> unit
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Public Sub SaveToXML (ByRef doc As XmlDocument, node As XmlNode, events As IDTSEvents)
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The XML document to which to save the information.
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The node that contains the object to be stored.
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An IDTSEvents interface.
This method, SaveToXML is available because it is public on an interface that you inherit when you are creating custom objects and by objects shipped in the SSIS runtime. This method is intended for inheritance only and should not be called from code for other purposes. If you are creating a custom object and need information about how to write your own
SaveToXML method, see Extending Packages with Custom Objects.
If you want to save a package as XML, use the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToXml method. If you want to save the package to the File System, use Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToDtsServer. If you want to save the package to the MSDB database, use Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToSqlServer or Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToSqlServerAs methods. When you call the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToXml methods on the Application, the runtime will iterate through the tasks, connection managers, log providers, and all other objects that are contained by the package and call the
SaveToXML method on each of them. The contained objects have code in their
SaveToXML that creates an XmlElement for each property that the object must save, and a value for the element. The package contains the XmlDocument and the objects append their specific elements into the package's XmlDocument. Therefore, you do not directly call the
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Hoyer Floor Statement on House GOP Opposition to Middle Class Tax Cuts
Katie Grant, 202-225-3130
WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor today urging House Republicans to drop opposition to middle class tax cuts and work with Democrats on the Senate compromise bill to extend middle class tax cuts, extend unemployment assistance, and fix the Medicare physician payment rate. Whip Hoyer introduced a Motion to Instruct Conferees, which asks conferees to accept the Senate compromise bill. Below are his remarks and a link to the video.
Click here to watch the video.
"It is December 20th, and the Republicans are using it as a day to dissemble, pretending to support a tax cut for working Americans, while making it uncertain and delayed. We – of course, as we all know – could pass the Senate bill by 2pm today, send it to the President, and provide certainty to working Americans, come January 1st, that their taxes will not go up.
"The choice I suggest to all of you is not between sixty days and one year. At least we all say one year – we're all for one year and will support it. But we know the Senate won't agree, so they sent us sixty days. Instead, House Republicans refuse to even bring the Senate's bipartisan compromise to the Floor. Eighty-nine U.S. Senators voted for a compromise, but you will not bring it to the Floor, and you create uncertainty and anxiety among the public. That is shameful and disappointing.
"As a result, on January 1st, if there is no agreement, those of you who vote to send it to conference will be responsible for 160 million Americans seeing their taxes increase next year; for 2.3 million people seeking jobs who will lose their unemployment lifeline by mid-February; and for 48 million Americans having their access to doctors placed in jeopardy. Those are the stakes.
"America thought we had an agreement this weekend. John McCain thought we had an agreement this weekend. And yes, Speaker Boehner thought we had an agreement this weekend. America thought there was reason to hope that middle-class Americans would be spared this entirely preventable tax increase. I tell you my friends: if this were an upper-income increase, it would pass like lightning, but – no – this is about putting in jeopardy a middle-class tax cut, and we can play games with that.
"We are now witnessing the concluding convulsion of confrontation and obstruction in this most unproductive, Tea Party-dominated, partisan session of Congress. As a result, Speaker Boehner decided he wasn't for the agreement. But Speaker Boehner, six months ago, called proposals to extend the tax cut by a year – 'another little short-term gimmick.' It's the same rhetoric but different circumstances.
"In Senate Republican leader McConnell's own words, this compromise was 'designed to pass.' In fact the bill you passed – and you knew it – was designed to fail, and Republicans in the Senate knew it and rejected it. It did so in the Senate – that bill that was designed to pass - with overwhelming support from 83 percent of Republicans and almost every Democrat, including the entire Senate Republican and the entire Democratic leadership.
"Democrats, Mr. Speaker, are fighting to prevent a painful tax increase for the middle class. The way to do that is to pass the Senate compromise while we continue to work on a year-long extension. That's what Senator Reid said he'd do – that's what we want to do. We don't want to put Americans at risk, come January 1.
"If they fail to pass the compromise, House Republicans will have to answer to the American people whose taxes will go up, to the innocent unemployed and the Medicare seniors seeking services from their doctors. We must not leave this work unfinished just days before the holidays and new year. That's what the Senate did – they gave us time – gave American people time. Instead, we ought to be bringing relief to middle-class families that are increasingly anxious about their future during what should be a joyful and hopeful holiday season. We ought to pass the bipartisan Senate bill.
"That's what this motion to instruct says. That is what the American people want to happen in Washington – to see us work together. Come to agreement. Act. Bring certainty. Stop the blame game.
"We can send the bipartisan agreement to the president today, and he will sign it. Vote 'yes' on the motion to instruct. Vote for the American workers, Medicare recipients, and the unemployed."


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Technical Paper
Development of an In-Cylinder Heat Transfer Model with Compressibility Effects on Turbulent Prandtl Number, Eddy Viscosity Ratio and Kinematic Viscosity Variation
In-cylinder heat transfer has strong effects on engine performance and emissions and heat transfer modeling is closely related to the physics of the thermal boundary layer, especially the effects of conductivity and Prandtl number inside the thermal boundary layer. Compressibility effects on the thermal boundary layer are important issues in multi-dimensional in-cylinder heat transfer modeling. Nevertheless, the compressibility effects on kinematic viscosity and the variation of turbulent Prandtl number and eddy viscosity ratio have not been thoroughly investigated. In this study, an in-cylinder heat transfer model is developed by introducing compressibility effects on turbulent Prandtl number, eddy viscosity ratio and kinematic viscosity variation with a power-law approximation. This new heat transfer model is implemented to a spark-ignition engine with a coherent flamelet turbulent combustion model and the RNG k- turbulence model.


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While many may have forgotten the Oracle vs. Google patent infringement lawsuit, it's still going on in San Francisco and the judge has ordered both Google and Oracle to give up a list of paid-off tech bloggers.
In essence, both companies will have to inform the court of any authors, bloggers, commenters or journalists who they have paid to comment or write about the case, according to BuzzFeed. According to the court order, each side will file a statement listing all of its paid-off writers by noon on Aug. 17.
So is Judge William Alsup looking for some stealth bloggers or does he have someone in mind? There's been some wild speculation about who might be on the list, but there likely won't be any surprises -- such as the entirety of the Wall Street Journal being paid off by Oracle. Alsup said in the order that he wants the list in case of an appeal, but others, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation believe that something might be behind the order. A whole underground of for-pay press coverage perhaps?
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Check out: The Loft's Lou & Grey concept store
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Last night, Carly and I hosted a shopping event at Lou & Grey in Westport, Connecticut. The name might sound familiar if you're already a fan of Loft but this is the brand's first concept store and I loved getting to see it in person! Chambray, stripes, the sweetest saleswomen, and lots of adorable readers = a pretty good Thursday night in my book.
The Lou & Grey store is attached to the Loft next door but it has a totally different vibe: no signage, pretty tables styled with bits and baubles, and personal touches like art, books, and greenery.
Obviously I made a beeline toward the blue and white section. The quality of their dresses and shirts is something you almost have to feel to believe - so. unbelievably. soft.
I settled on this striped sweatshirt tee with white jeans. I would legitimately buy bedding made out of this fabric but, until Lou & Grey surprises us with a home line, I'll settle for wearing this top day and night.
I'm admittedly not the biggest brick-and-mortar shopper so it makes a huge difference to me when a store feels like a true destination as opposed to a louder, messier extension of everything I can already see online. Everything at Lou & Grey was super streamlined and the women who worked there were the kind of cool girls you'd want to be best friends with. It's the kind of place you'd go to stock up on breezy basics before vacation (the woman in the next dressing room over was headed to LA) or just to pop in on your lunch break and see what's new (because there's no such thing as too many perfect white t-shirts).
The concept store also carries a number of products by independent designers like these amazing Proud Mary pillows. Each artisan's work is marked by an index card explaining where the designer is based and where that product was made.
If you're Connecticut bound (or bred, like me!), you'll find Lou & Grey at 15 Main Street in Westport.
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text: Soooo I got my King 1000 from Japanese Knife Imports (great business) I will be ordering other supplies from them. Anyway found a 5" Cuisinart Santoku in the back of one of the kitchen drawers to practice on. Since it was completely dull I used my Lansky system at 17 degrees to get a OK edge on it then soaked the King and began sharpening. I've sharpened and sharpened and the edge has gotten as sharp as I can seem to get it. It will cut paper but it won't slice it like my wife's new Global knife (i know bought them before i found this site). Anyway should I be able to get the knife as sharp as her out of the box Global with just the King 1000?


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As I listen to NFL type people tell us that is why is crucial to time a player run in a straight line for 40 yards in basically his underwear, it got me to think about some of the events, people and "things" about sports that really do not matter.
Here are a list of a couple events that are not needed in sports – in no paticular order.
1. NFL Combine –maybe, just maybe, the least reliable way to evaluate talent (the NFL is far ahead of every other major sport in this category). It is of course available for your viewing pleasure on the NFL Network.
2. NFL Preseason – Who wants to play regular price for tickets when the starters don't even play the game and don't get paid the "salary". Check into the last part.
3. NBA Regular Season Before the All-Star game. The games don't matter until halfway through the fourth quarter. Unless it is a great match-up and a team needs to make "a statement".
4. The Skills Contest during NBA All-Star weekend – It would be more entertaining if they pulled people from the crowd.
5. The fact that the MLB All-Star game determines who gets homefield advantage for the World Series. Then why play the rest of the season??
6. About 73% percent of non-game programming on ESPN.
7. A Salary Cap in the NFL – ITS CALLED A SIGNING BONUS.
8. Fines that are anything less than $250,000. People would listen a little more.
9. Al Davis.
10. Billy Packer – Kind of a creep.
11. The One Year Rule in NCAA Basketball – There has to be a better solution.
12. Different sized and shaped hockey arenas in college hockey.
13. The New York Knicks outside of Nate Robinson and David Lee.
14. Minnesota Vikings quarterbacks – All of you are incapable, just give the ball to Adrian Peterson please and either block someone or GET OUT OF THE WAY!
15. New England Patriots quarterbacks – No matter who it is , they win.
16. Player contracts in soccer– Recently, contacts have become meaningless in almost in every sport, but soccer is horrible – i.e. David Beckham.
17. John Madden talking.
18. Bracketlogy before March – some buddy needs something more productive to do.
19. ESPN pretending the know and care about soccer outside of this country or any soccer player not named David Beckham or Landon Donavon. And why do they always say their full names?
20. Bobby Knight talking – they call him Bob now that he is at ESPN – it's like Pacman changing to Adam, no one forgets.
21. Club covers – unless they are funny.
22. The NHL in the south.
23. Fantasy Baseball – too much work.
24. Time "Limits" durning the actual draft process. If you can't make a deal and or figure out who you are going to pick.
25. How diffrerent people yell the same damn thing every time Tiger Woods tees off – Get in the hole"
26. This blog.


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Individual Chicken Potpies
Total TimePrep: 40 min. Bake: 25 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) chicken broth
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 cup fresh broccoli florets
- 1/2 cup fresh cauliflowerets
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced carrot
- 1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
- 2 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3 to 4 tablespoons cold water
- In a large saucepan, saute onion and green pepper in butter until onion is tender. Add flour until blended. Stir in the broth, milk, broccoli, cauliflower, celery and carrot. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat. Stir in cheese. Divide chicken among four ungreased 1-1/2-cup baking dishes. Top with vegetable mixture.
- For pastry, combine the flour, salt and paprika in a bowl; cut in shortening until crumbly. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Divide into four portions; roll out each to 1/8-in. thickness. Place pastry over vegetable mixture. Trim pastry to 1/2 in. beyond edge of dish; flute edges. Cut slits in top. Bake at 350° for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 811 calories, 51g fat (21g saturated fat), 126mg cholesterol, 1021mg sodium, 49g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 3g fiber), 38g protein.
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Feb 26, 2010
I made these yesterday for lunch. My boys loved them since they had been outside shoveling snow half of the morning. WHEM OT CP,ES TO CROTOZING THE INGREDIANTS i DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING IS HARMFUL AS LONG IAS IT IS DONE IN MODERATION. yES, THERE IS A LOW FAT sWOSS cHEESE CALLED aLPINE lACE, BUT WOULD THE TASTE OF THIS CHEESE HOLD UP IN THE DISH? iT IS A MUCH MILDER FLAVOR, AT LEAST i THINK SO AND i THINK THIS DIS NEEDS A BOLDER SWISS.
Feb 25, 2010
123Lon, did you make the recipe? I don't understand why people post a rating on here to either say that it looks good and they think they will make it, or to point out nutritional information that I can certaily read for myself. And taste of home, why is it a requirement to give stars? How can one give a star rating to a recipe they haven't tried yet?
Feb 25, 2010
Chicken potpies are delicious and a keeper in our home. My family simply loves them and it's a recipe we'll be making many more times, as it's so easy to make and so good to eat.
Feb 25, 2010
The sodium content of the recipe is huge, like 1/2 the daily allowance of sodium. Using low sodium chicken broth, and leaving out the salt in the pastry, and unsalted butter would be a start. If there is such a thing a low sodium swiss cheese that would be a good thing.LAG


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Walcott stakes striker claim
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger praised Theo Walcott after the England international came off the bench to score in the 3-1 win at West Ham.
Walcott, who has yet to sign a new deal with the club and has made it clear he wants to play as a central striker, was introduced in the second half and slotted home the goal that put the Gunners ahead for the first time.
"He is slowly getting there," Wenger said. "You're confident now when he gets in front of goal that he will score. Of course he scored an important one today at a moment where the game was a bit 50-50. Theo has an outstanding attitude and I don't rule anybody out. If I did then I would not bring him on in a crucial moment in the game. I believe in him."
He added: "Gervinho looked a bit tired and Theo made the difference. He scored the second goal and that is the most important one."
Mohamed Diame opened the scoring for the home side before Olivier Giroud grabbed his first league goal for the Gunners to take the sides in level at the break.
Walcott then added the second before Santi Cazorla, who had an impeccable game for the Gunners, bent in a spectacular third. Wenger was pleased with the performance of the Spain playmaker, who moved to the Emirates from Malaga during the summer.
"I think he was overall a delight to watch," he said. "From the first to the last minute today. He was very influential in our team and it's fantastic to watch him play."
West Ham provided a stern test for Arsenal with Andy Carroll returning to the starting line-up following a hamstring injury and he caused several aerial problems for the visitors.
Hammers boss Sam Allardyce revealed he did not envisage playing Carroll for the full 90 minutes as he continues to find his fitness following his lay-off. But injuries to Guy Demel and Ricardo Vaz Te, with the latter missing for up to 12 weeks with a dislocated shoulder, meant Allardyce had no choice but to keep Carroll on.
"He is okay, he is fine," he said. "We didn't want to play him for 90 minutes because he has only just come back from that long spell injured and hasn't played that much - but unfortunately our injury plight continued as the game progressed."


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Hey everyone! I announced this a few months ago but I figured I better come back and remind you that I am now blogging over on Wordpress at my new blog, Love and Math. Come check it out and say hello!
If you're wondering what I've been writing about, here are a few of my latest posts (you know, over there on Love And Math, where I'm blogging now):
- Digital Impact Conference: Reaching Online Consumers Via Women Bloggers
- SheSays Visionary Leadership Panel
- How much do we really know about the food our kids eat?
- All work and no play makes people cranky
- Video interview at Ground Floor Media
- Best Cover Letter Ever
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How to Hear Christ's Call
User's Guide to Sunday, Jan. 15.
Sunday, Jan. 15, is the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-10; 1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20; John 1:35-42
Our Take
Everybody loves dramatic stories of God's call. But, ordinarily, when God calls us, it happens in the course of an ordinary life: in church, in our workplace, in our families. That's how we each felt "called" to our Christian vocations.
Don't get us wrong. There are many dramatic callings in Scripture: The shepherd boy faces the giant and vanquishes him. An angel appears to Mary and Joseph to tell them the Messiah will come into their lives. Isaiah is taken up to heaven and his lips touched with burning coal. St. Paul is knocked off his horse by a blinding light.
Dramatic callings aren't a thing of the past, either. We all have friends who experienced sudden conversions at Marian apparition sites or life-changing experiences at World Youth Day or other youth conferences.
But we are more likely to come across God's call in exactly the ways you would expect.
April experienced God in a powerful way at her first Communion — when the priest raised the Host above the altar, she was struck with the truth of his presence and the fact that he was truly there with her. Her faith and her commitment to a life of following Christ in the Church all began right there, too. The "call" was reinforced by her family and has hardly wavered since.
Tom had a quiet experience, alone, much later. A year before transferring to a Catholic college program that would change his life, he sat in a quiet chapel at the University of Arizona and was filled with longing about something that he couldn't quite put his finger on. It was only later he realized it was the presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
These are the kind of quiet calls we usually get: less extraordinary, but just as meaningful. They are also the kinds of calls recounted in today's readings.
Samuel is called at the Temple (which is actually also his workplace. He is sleeping in the Temple, which probably means he was working the nightshift as keeper of the Temple flame). His encounter with the Lord has two important characteristics. First, the Lord's communication with Samuel consists of his name, and, second, when Samuel "meets" the Lord, this is manifested mostly by his becoming aware of God's presence.
We, too, are called by name by God in church — in our baptism. But just as importantly, in the quiet of prayer and worship, we realize we are "known" by the Lord. It's the real "me" that is sitting in church, encountering Christ, away (we hope) from every consideration of self-importance. It is that "me" that God calls to himself. We don't see him physically in church; rather, he "reveals his presence" in the tabernacle.
The apostles are also called in a very natural, almost casual way. (Even Peter, in today's Gospel, is renamed "Rock" almost as an afterthought. We know that, later, the Lord conferred this title in a more significant way, but it is telling that Christ called him "Cephas" or "Peter" from the beginning. )
The chief characteristic of this encounter is the docile open-mindedness of the apostles.
It begins when Andrew and another apostle hear John the Baptist call Jesus "the Lamb of God." At this simple (and theologically profound) testimony, they follow him.
Then, in a beautifully simple dialogue, Jesus gains his great first apostles by asking them, "What are you looking for?"
He says the same thing to us: What do we want out of life?
They had the faith to see that they didn't know what they were looking for — but that, whatever it was, he was the one to show it to them. They answer, "Rabbi, where are you staying?"
We need to realize that our answer should be the same as theirs. What are we looking for? We should be looking for the things the Lord has planned for us.
Then Jesus answers, "Come, and you will see." This is what the Lord said to April at her first Communion and to Tom in college. We didn't know what we would see, but we started to know where we had to go.
When he says it to us today, we need to have the faith to go where he leads and find what he has to offer.
Tom and April Hoopes write from Atchison, Kansas,
where Tom is writer in residence at Benedictine College.


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Audio Warning: We like tha moon.
Oh yeah. You can't park your bike right next to City Center Square because it looks trashy and/or like a sign of poverty. But leaving this cart where I used to lean my bike is just fine.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Moon Over Lyric Opera
Audio Warning: We like tha moon.
7 comments:
- Pat Ring said...
Another awesome pic. I used to work at the UMB bank building at 12th and Wyandotte, but I would pull out of the garage there at 11th, so I am pretty used to that view.
I am cracking up over the grocery cart pic. I know that is probably someone's mobile home, but it's still pretty funny. I've sat at that exact spot and watched as someone from the street, um, cleared their nasal passage, on that very window. My client was impressed.
- October 16, 2008 1:29 PM
- Unknown said...
The moon has been spectacular these past few mornings. However, I will appreciate it in a whole new way after seeing that. Great post Noah!
- October 16, 2008 6:11 PM
- amidnightrider said...
Go figure huh? (about the cart).
I have been amazed at this months moon. Spectacular.
- October 18, 2008 8:28 AM
- Sirrus Rider said...
Oh the Cart full o' Crap is just so much more attractive than a $500 plus Bicycle (not!).
- October 18, 2008 11:47 AM
Do you commute with your laptop daily? If so - how do you ensure its safety? Just shove it in your panniers and pray?
Serious query...:-)
- October 18, 2008 8:50 PM
- Noah said...
And it's a good question. This laptop has survived almost two years of year-round commuting by bike and by bus, going to work with me almost daily since late 2006. When I'm using panniers, It's in a padded sleeve (I use the Laptop Shuttle by Case Logic). When I use a backpack, I have a Kensington Contour laptop-specific pack that's padded and meant for on-the-go types like myself. I don't use the backpack often in the summer because it's hot and carrying stuff on my back 2 hours a day (when I ride the full trip) is uncomfortable. As winter rolls around and I start using the bus more, I'll put it back into use. It's nice because I don't have to disconnect the pannier from the bike before I get on the bus, and there's no way I'm leaving my laptop in a pannier attached to my bike on the front of a bus. I've been meaning to post about them for a while.
One suggestion that comes up often is to just carry the data you need on a USB drive. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for my situation, but it's a good compromise for many people.
- October 18, 2008 9:21 PM
Hey thanks for the tips.
I just worry about crashing while carrying it in panniers or backpack because it is my work laptop, not a personal one.
I commute in every day and I can tell it annoys my boss that I never take it home with me.
My boss is a bit of a loony. :-)
- October 19, 2008 10:53 AM
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Kiwanis expressed deep appreciation for all the Sponsored Youth Programs do to improve the quality of life both at school and in the community.
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December 16, 2009
The parking lot spanning from the Valley Country Store to Buhl's chamber of commerce office transformed Saturday night into a bustling hub of chatty teens, revving ATVs and flickering lights.
Meanwhile, residents and out-of-towners alike took to the streets in hopes of getting the best vantage point for taking in the city's annual Nightlight Parade, this year themed, "Dreams of Christmas Past and Hopes of Christmas to Be."
Even Santa Claus was present in the menagerie, taking time to mingle with other parade entrants before the big event got underway.
It was the first time Dave Bingham, of Jerome, had played the part of every kids' wintertime hero.
"I enjoy being around people," said Bingham, a member of the Magic Valley ATV Riders, which had 33 decked-out ATVs in the parade.
Bingham's significant other, Cherie Chambers, dressed as an elf and patted Bingham's slightly protruding middle, explaining he was perfect for the role.
"He's already a jolly old boy," Chambers giggled.
Some entrants, like Castleford resident Niall Irish, participate every year.
This year Irish brought out his 1941 Ford Sedan. Just minutes before the parade convoy left the lot, Irish double-checked the holly wreaths wrapped around each tire and straightened out a string of lights around the front window.
"It's become a personal tradition. Each year I throw out $50 worth of candy canes to the kids. Their happiness is what makes it so much fun," Irish said.
Buhl Middle School Builder's Club advisor Anita Svancara said at least a dozen students would be riding on the club's float. A lot of time and effort was invested by the club to illustrate the parade's theme. On half of the float students created a nativity theme. The other side was decorated like a typical living room, complete with a fireplace.
After making and sending Christmas cards to soldiers abroad and organizing a canned food and coat drive at the school the parade was a well-deserved, enjoyable event, Svancara said.
"These kids have really been busy and this is the fun activity of the season," Svancara said.
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December 11, 2009
When it comes to spreading joy, the Builders Club at Los Cerritos Middle School, Thousand Oaks, California, has all the holidays covered. The club began its "season of giving" this past October when members collected more than $200 during Halloween week. The money is to be donated to UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) to assist the international organization in helping children in need in Uganda.
Staying in the holiday spirit, club members tapped their artistic sides, making decorative pumpkins by wrapping orange fabric around rolls of toilet paper and sticking a paper-sack stem at the top. The pumpkins were given to residents of the Thousand Oaks Health Care Center and to people who receive Meals on Wheels. The handmade gifts really brightened the day for both gift givers and recipients, says Lori Pierson, the club's advisor.
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China Hails ITU Internet Takeover By Blowing Its Favorite Trumpet: Distrusting The US
from the one-way-of-looking-at-it deptWhile there's been plenty of talk about the upcoming ITU process, the ITU keeps attempting to downplay what it's trying to do -- and insisting that Russia, China and other regimes aren't looking to use the process to clamp down on the internet. Of course, proposal leaks from Russia suggest otherwise. As for China, Dave Farber points us to an editorial in the People's Daily newspaper in China from back in August that argues that the ITU process is necessary to wrest control of the internet away from the US.
This indicated the U.S. decision to retain ultimate control over the global Internet, which enabled it to unilaterally close the Internet of another country. A suddenly paralyzed Internet would definitely cause huge social and economic losses to the country.This is an exaggeration of reality. While ICANN has serious problems -- which we frequently discuss here -- that doesn't mean that dumping it entirely in favor of a ridiculously secretive and bureaucratic process like the ITU makes sense. The article goes on to cite the US apparently turning off the .iq domain for Iraq during the invasion in 2003. Of course, that's an interesting rewriting of history. The issue with the .iq domain wasn't quite as cut and dried as the editorial implies. First of all, .iq wasn't a widely used domain no matter what. But, more importantly, it was entirely managed and controlled by a guy in Texas who was accused of funding terrorists and eventually sentenced to 84 months in jail. It wasn't so much a case of the US government running to ICANN and saying shut down the domain, as it was a criminal investigation into separate issues that happened to scoop up the one guy who controlled the TLD. And, it should be noted that ICANN gave .iq back to the Iraqi government years ago.
More and more countries are beginning to question the U.S. control over the world's Internet as the international resource should be managed and supervised by all countries together. However, the United States has conducted a pre-emptive strike, and refused to give up control over the Internet in the name of protecting the resource. The refusal reflects its hegemonic mentality and double standards.
The United States controls and owns all cyberspaces in the world, and other countries can only lease Internet addresses and domain names from the United States, leading to the U.S. hegemonic monopoly over the world's Internet.
This kind of stuff indicates the lengths to which the Chinese government seems willing to go to prop up the ITU process for taking over aspects of internet governance: they'll just lie and make up stories when the truth isn't particularly convenient.


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As posted to the s3tools-general mailing list, s3tools maintainer Michal Ludvig is looking for new maintainers to step up to continue the care and feeding of the s3tools / s3cmd application. s3cmd is widely used, on both Linux and Windows, to publish and maintain content in the Amazon Web Services S3 storage system and CloudFront content distribution network.
I use s3cmd for two primary purposes:
- as Fedora Mirror Wrangler, I use it within Fedora Infrastructure to maintain mirrors within S3 in each region for the benefit of EC2 users running Fedora or using the EPEL repository on top of RHEL or a derivative. Fedora has mirrors in us-east-1, us-west-1 and -2, and eu-west-1 right now, and may add the other regions over time.
- for my own personal web site, I offload storage of static historical pictures and movies so that they are served from economical storage and not consuming space on my primary web server.
I congratulate Michal for recognizing when he no longer has the time to commit to regular maintenance of such an important project, and to begin looking for contributors who can carry out that responsibility more effectively. While I've submitted a few patches in support of the Fedora Infrastructure mirror needs, I know that I don't have the time to take on that added responsibility right now either.
If you use s3cmd, or have contributed to s3cmd, and feel you could make the time commitment to be the next maintainer, you'll find an active contributor base and dedicated user base to help you move the project forward.


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Tarleton Society of Engineering Technology
Tarleton Society of Engineering Technology (TSET) is a social, service, and professional society with membership open to any one in the department of Engineering Technology. The members of TSET demonstrate an attitude of professional interest and involvement in the classroom as well as on the TSU campus. The society is active in professional development and provides leadership development through seminars, sponsored meetings, guest lectures and industry tours that enhance professional education of its members. Also, visit the TSET on Facebook.
Faculty contacts: Dr. Mollick, Mr. Willey, Mr. Gray, Dr. Fragoso-Diaz
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is the world's leading professional society that serves the field of manufacturing. The society provides publications, expositions, and professional development resources to approximately 60,000 members in 70 countries. Local SME chapters hold monthly meetings consisting of technical presentations and plant tours. The local SME chapter that serves Tarleton and the north Texas area is Chapter 51. Student members benefit from all the membership resources available to professional members and are encouraged to attend Chapter 51 meetings as often as possible. Student membership information may be found on the SME web pages.
Faculty contact: Dr. Mollick, Mr. Willey, Mr. Gray
Society of Plastics Engineers
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) serves professionals in the plastics industry throughout the world. The goal of SPE is to provide knowledge and educational opportunities in the field of plastics and polymers. Membership in SPE is designed to help the members keep up to date on the latest breakthrough technologies as they happen. The local SPE section that serves Tarleton and the north Texas area is the North Texas section. Student members benefit from the membership resources available to professional members and are encouraged to attend North Texas section meetings as often as possible. Student membership information may be found on the SPE web pages.
Faculty contact: Dr. Mollick, Mr. Gray
Institute of Industrial Engineers
The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) serves the professional needs of industrial engineers as well as other individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Members of IIE stay on the cutting edge of their profession by participating in the educational opportunities, publications, and networking opportunities offered by the organization. Student membership information is available on the IIE web pages.
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American Society for Quality
The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is dedicated to the development, advancement, and promotion of quality concepts, principles, and techniques. The goal of ASQ is to provide needed information to all professionals who are involved in such activities as total quality management, benchmarking, productivity, and other related issues of manufacturing. Student membership is available and provides access to valuable information difficult to find elsewhere. Student membership information is available on the ASQ web pages.
Faculty contact: Dr. Fragoso-Diaz


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Support for the United States has plummeted. Polls taken in Islamic countries after 9/11 suggested that many or most people thought the United States was doing the right thing in its fight against terrorism; few people saw popular support for al Qaeda; half of those surveyed said that ordinary people had a favorable view of the United States.
By 2003, polls showed that the bottom has fallen out of support for America in most of the Muslim world. Negative views of the U.S. among Muslims, which had been largely limited to countries in the Middle East, have spread.... Since last summer, favorable ratings for the U.S. have fallen from 61% to 15% in Indonesia and from 71% to 38% among Muslims in Nigeria.�
The small percentage of Muslims who are fully committed to Usama Bin Ladin�s version of Islam are impervious to persuasion. It is among the large majority of Arabs and Muslims that we must encourage reform, freedom, democracy, and opportunity, even though our own promotion of these messages is limited in its effectiveness simply because we are its carriers. Muslims themselves will have to reflect upon such basic issues as the concept of jihad, the position of women, and the place of non-Muslim minorities. The United States can promote moderation, but cannot ensure its ascendancy. Only Muslims can do this.